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| Authored by: greed on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 05:13 PM EDT |
The space under the seat was the power supplies and coolant pumps, if I'm
remembering right.
I actually got to sit on the seat (of an X-MP) for a class photo once... and
later submit a job to it.
The "front-end terminal" was actually a VAX. You would not
communicate directly with the X-MP, you would prepare your job on a terminal on
the VAX and submit it to a processing queue. The VAX would then send the job to
the Cray and get the results back. (They may have had an IBM mainframe that
could talk to it as well, there was a lot of very pretty and big equipment in
that building....)
With the little programs we were writing, you'd sometimes get the "job
completed" notice before the "job running" notice....
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| Authored by: JamesK on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 09:45 PM EDT |
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Don't forget the apocryphal built-in beer cooler.
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That reminds me. Back in the days when I was a computer tech, working on
mini-computers, all the computers were on a raised floor with forced, chilled
air keeping them cool. The space under the floor was great for keeping food
cool. ;-)
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